Agent Payments

Base

2026-10-24 00:44:05

Base says Mastercard is using an x402 and USDC agent payment setup settled on Base

Base said in a post on X that Mastercard is adopting an agent payment method built on x402 and USDC, with settlement taking place on the Base network. The update was cited by Odaily as a brief news item. The source text did not provide additional details on rollout timing, transaction volume, commercial scope, or the specific structure of the payment flow beyond naming x402, USDC, and Base as the settlement network. As presented in the original report, the statement came directly from Base’s post on X.

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Cobo

2026-10-17 01:20:14

Cobo to unveil rebrand and upgraded enterprise payment wallet products at Singapore FinTech Festival

Cobo said it plans to announce a brand upgrade during the Singapore FinTech Festival in mid-November and present new capabilities for its institutional wallet business, including upgraded products designed for enterprise and AI agent payment use cases. Founded in 2017, the company was first known for wallet products aimed at individual users before shifting its focus toward institutional and enterprise services. Cobo said it now serves more than 680 institutional clients across nearly 50 countries and regions. The showcase at SFF will cover its latest progress in institutional wallets, payments, and agent payments. The update comes a day after Cobo Wallet said its app service will be formally shut down on Dec. 1, 2026. Users were asked to transfer out all assets before 23:59 on Nov. 30 and update any receiving addresses previously set as Cobo Wallet addresses on other platforms. Cobo said the app had stopped accepting new user registrations in 2021 and had remained available for existing users so they had enough time to withdraw funds. The company described the latest brand and product changes as part of its continued push into institutional business.

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Sui

2026-10-15 23:54:49

Alibaba Cloud integrates Sui Agent Payments for per-use USDC payments by agents

Sui said in a post on X that Alibaba Cloud is integrating its services with Sui Agent Payments. Under the setup described by Sui, agents will be able to make per-use payments in USDC within spending limits set by users. All payments will be settled on the Sui network. The announcement did not provide additional implementation details beyond the integration and payment flow. The update was reported by Odaily as a 7x24 news flash.

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Sui

2026-10-07 05:28:47

Sui partners with Alibaba Cloud to bring cloud services into Sui Agent Payments

Sui said in a post on X that it is working with Alibaba Cloud to integrate Alibaba Cloud services into Sui Agent Payments. The setup will also support pay-per-use payments with stablecoins on the Sui network. According to the post, the partnership was announced on site at Sui Basecamp. The update centers on adding cloud services to the payment flow and enabling stablecoin-based usage payments on Sui. No additional commercial terms or rollout details were disclosed in the brief announcement.

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Sui

2026-10-07 05:43:14

Sui partners with Alibaba Cloud to add stablecoin pay-per-call payments for AI agents

Sui said on Oct. 7 that it has partnered with Alibaba Cloud to bring Alibaba Cloud services into Sui Agent Payments. The setup will allow users to pay for AI agent services on a pay-per-call basis using stablecoins on Sui. The update was reported by BlockBeats. No additional financial details or launch metrics were disclosed in the brief. The announcement focuses on payment support for service calls tied to AI agents and names Alibaba Cloud as the service provider being integrated into the Sui payment framework. The item was published as a 7x24 news flash.

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AGENTIC MONEY

2026-10-05 06:47:24

AGENTIC MONEY 2026 summit to open in Singapore on Oct. 6

The first AGENTIC MONEY summit is scheduled to take place in Singapore on Oct. 6, with OSL as title sponsor and Money in Motion and LongTree Labs serving as co-hosts. The event has backing from PhotonPay, DogPay, Eddid Financial, Amazon Web Services, United Stables, Huma, FluxA, and StableTree. According to the organizers, it will be one of the largest and broadest-ranging summits during TOKEN2049 Singapore Week focused on global payments, real-world assets, and on-chain finance in the Agentic era. The event will also introduce the in-progress Agentic Money 2026 white paper. Discussions are set to cover four themes: agent payments, global trade corridors, scalable real-world assets, and bringing Wall Street on-chain, with a focus on how agents are entering payments, global trade, and on-chain finance.

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David Shengar

2026-09-30 06:56:02

David Shengart says founders should build for 50 years, not tie companies to one narrative

David Shengart, head of Cointelegraph Accelerator, said at a panel during GWDC 2026 Korea that the venture market remains difficult, with roughly 90% of capital going to 10% of companies. He identified three narratives that are heating up: real-world assets, the combination of AI and blockchain, and stablecoins with fintech. Even so, he said founders should not build companies around a single narrative and should instead aim to create businesses that can last 50 years. On investment criteria, Shengart said he looks first at team resilience and commitment, then at the product. The most important factor, he said, is distribution: who the customer is, who pays, and where the first dollar comes from. He also said AI has shortened product delivery to 48 to 72 hours, making it possible even for people without development experience to build applications. In this cycle, he said, the bet is on faster delivery and stronger distribution channels. Shengart also pointed to prediction markets and controls on agents as areas worth watching, and named tokenized stocks and agent payments as the next catalysts.

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x402

2026-09-03 06:28:00

x402 tops roughly 155.6 million transactions since launch, but the case for durable agent demand is still being tested

PANews reviewed adoption data for x402, the protocol launched by Coinbase Developer Platform on May 6, 2025 to revive HTTP 402 Payment Required as a native payment flow for software. The article says x402 has moved beyond the demo stage, with several visible usage signals across different datasets: Chainalysis said cumulative x402 transactions on Base had passed 100 million as of June 2026; Agent Economy’s cross-chain tracker showed about 155.6 million transactions and roughly $40.97 million in settled stablecoin volume around July 10, 2026 UTC; and x402scan, viewed on July 11, 2026, showed about 16.24 million indexed transactions, around 837,500 USDC in total amount, about 67,000 unique buyers and roughly 39,600 unique sellers within its visible range. The report argues those figures show x402 is no longer just a protocol experiment, but they do not prove that agentic payments have reached mature, large-scale commercial adoption. A meaningful share of early activity may have come from campaigns such as PING, developer testing, stress tests, bot activity or one-off experiments rather than persistent enterprise workflows. The article says the more important signal is the transaction shape x402 enables: software can see a price inside an HTTP request, pay, and receive access to an API, dataset, model call or tool result without a human checkout flow. It also points to real-world categories already forming around APIs, data endpoints, infrastructure gateways, wallets, SDKs and incentive-driven experiments, while warning that spending policy, audit trails, refunds, dispute handling and human approval remain unresolved parts of the stack.

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